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I now have regular access to a 30 meter indoor range. Its literally ten minutes from my front door. So I have dragged my Winchester trapper 38/357 out of retirement and started shooting it again. This gives me the opportunity to start hand loading for it again.
So I blew the dust of the mould's a 155 grain semi wad cutter is my favorite using wheel weights. I need to be frugal with them because my wheel weight stash is nearly gone.
I went looking for dies to reload with I have several sets of different makes. I came across a lovely set of NFDS dies. Im over the moon I can use them again. The newer guys wont know any thing about NDFS dies(North Devon Firearms services).
But for us old farts its a blast from the past. British made by a English crafts man who sadly is no longer with us. Im super excited.

I have two sets - 38/.357 and 44 mag - a bit of class

I bought a set of 38/357 in 1982 to use with my Wamadet and they're still going strong. I had to replace a decapping pin about 8 years ago as I bent it but otherwise no problems.
Lovely dies and at the time not expensive as I recall.

I loved the Tupperware container and that the dies were wrapped up in old newspaper when you first opened them.
Jim Godwin was a pal of the guy who ran Custom Bullets and they regularly attended sales opportunities together. I cannot remember the chap's name other than it was Colin and he had two enormous Rottweilers that were as soft as muck.
Happy memories flooding back from my pistol shooting days.

I just remembered - it was Colin Billet

Happy days. Unfortunately gone for ever.

The owner of NDFS was Jim Goodwin. A perfect gentleman. I got to know him when he sold his company to a group of people in Yorkshire. His expertise in enabling shooters to resurrect old time firearms was significant. I am sorry if he has passed away.

Unfortunately after Jim retired and passed on his tooling the quality was never there. There have been several iterations of NDFS post Jim and each one seemed to excel in outdoing the previous one in making crap dies.

If buying NDFS dies second hand make sure that there were made by Jim.